Agrilus trepanatus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Buprestidae
Genus: Agrilus
Name
Agrilus trepanatus Jendek, 2013 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
BODY. Size: 10.2–12.7 mm (Holotype 12.7 mm).Shape: subparallel, Build: robust, Posterior tapering part: short with broad apex, Color (dorsally): bicolored. HEAD. Medial impression: deep, Epistoma: raised above frons, Vertex: Sculpture elements: rugae, Sculpture shape: semispherical, Sculpture density: dense, Eyes: Size: small, Lower margin: in line or below with antennal socket, Medial orbit: subparallel, Antennae: Length: long, Width: slender, Serration: from antennomere 4, Antennomere 7-10 (shape): with obvious collum. PRONOTUM. Shape: visually square, Sides: slightly arcuate, Maximal width: at middle, Anterior margin: subequal to posterior, Anterior lobe: Size: moderate or obvious, Shape: arcuate, Position: at level with anterior angles, Posterior angles: Shape: obtuse or rectangular, Apex: sharp, Disk: Convexity: strongly convex, Impressions: medial and lateral, Medial impression: anteromedial and posteromedial, Prehumerus: Development: carinal, Shape: arcuate or bisinuate, Extent: to 1/2 of pronotal length or to 1/3 of pronotal length, Modifications: with rudiment at anterior angle, Anterior end: distant from lateral carina, Posterior end: joined with posterior angle or margin, Arc: moderate, Lateral carinae: Interspace: narrow, Convergence: moderately convergent, Junction: absent, rarely present, Narrowest point: at posterior 1/5-1/4 of marginal carina, Modifications: submarginal carina posteriorly obliterate. ELYTRA. Color: monochromatic, Humeral carina: absent, Apices: Arrangement: separate, Shape: arcuate, Pubescence: Color: monochromatic, Extent: entire ornamental with indication of stripes. STERNUM. Prosternal lobe: Size: large, Distal margin: arcuate, Prosternal process: Shape: dilated or subparallel, Sides: straight, Angles: obtuse, Angles (tips): blunt, Disc: flat, Projection (extend): distinctly beyond angles, Mesosternum: Mesosternal projection: flat. ABDOMEN. Pygidium: Apical margin: arcuate, Sternal groove: Extent: on three apical ventrites, Shape on the apex of last ventrite: arcuate or arcuately sinuate, Emargination (deepness): very shallow. LEGS. Metatarsus: Size to metatibia: distinctly shorter than metatibia, Tarsomere 1: Size to following tarsomeres: subequal or longer than 2–4. GENITALIA. Ovipositor: Shape: markedly elongate.
Diagnosis
Agrilus trepanatus sp. n. can be distinguished from all species of the group by the large body; by the strikingly bicolor dorsal side and by the head obviously deeply impressed medially. See also Appendix.
Type locality
South India, Karnataka state, Coorg district, northeastern Virajpet, [http://ptp.pensoft.eu/redirect_to_googlemap.php?labels%5B0%5D=75%C2%B050%27E%2C+12%C2%B013%27N&coordinates%5B0%5D=75%C2%B050%27E%2C+12%C2%B013%27N 75°50'E, 12°13'N], altitude 500 m.
Type material
Holotype (Fig. 14), ♀, (EJCB): “S-India, Karnataka state, Coorg distr., NE Virajpet, [http://ptp.pensoft.eu/redirect_to_googlemap.php?labels%5B0%5D=75%C2%B050%27E%2C+12%C2%B013%27N&coordinates%5B0%5D=75%C2%B050%27E%2C+12%C2%B013%27N 75°50'E, 12°13'N], ca 500m, 4–8.vi.1999, Z. Kejval & M. Trýzna leg.”. Paratypes: 1 paratype, ♀ (EJCB): “India, Karnataka, 12 km SW Yellapur, 7.vii-14.viii.84, B. Gill FIT 500 m”.
Adult occurrence:
6–7–8. Altitude range: 500 m.
Host plant
Unknown.
Distribution
INDIA: Karnataka.
Etymology
The specific name is an adjective derived from the Greek verb trepao (drill, bore) in Latinized form trepano. It refers to the conspicuously impressed head of this species.
Original Description
- Jendek, E; 2013: Revision of the Agrilus occipitalis species–group (Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilini) ZooKeys, 256: 35-79. doi
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